[Sonny M]

His first wife was within two degrees of consanguinity and no dispensation was ever asked for or granted.

That is so nasty.

When he was mayor I remember him making an off color joke about it, I almost puked.

I also remember it as an anti-southern joke.

[wideawake]

That is so nasty.

Indeed.

When he was mayor I remember him making an off color joke about it, I almost puked.

He initially claimed that they did not know they were so closely related. Jay Leno quipped: "Didn't they figure it out when each family started inviting all the same people to the wedding?"

I also remember it as an anti-southern joke.

Always easy to get a laugh in my native city by mocking Southerners. Very distasteful tendency.